The Editors Weblog will be on a short holiday break. We’ll be back on Jan. 2 2008 with fresh content for the New Year. And starting on Feb. 1, the Weblog will relaunch with a user-friendly and esthetic redesign: readers will still get their share of news and analysis, but in a cleaner layout, with more sharing and networking features, more pictures and a daily email newsletter service. Till then, enjoy the holidays and a very happy New Year!
MTV has joined the Associated Press to launch “Street Team ’08,” a project involving 51 citizen journalists, one for each state and Washington D.C., to cover the presidential race and the next Congressional elections.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 21, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Apple has settled a lawsuit with the popular Apple rumor blog Think Secret, forcing the blog to cease publication. This news immediately triggered a wave of anger in the blogosphere, and raises issues about revealing trade secrets the status of bloggers as journalists.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 21, 2007 at 11:34 AM
The White House 'forced' - formally requested - the New York Times to change the subheadline of an article about the CIA’s destruction of secret interrogation videotapes of AL-Qaeda, published last Wednesday.
Being a quality daily in the US might entail a few things, but does it justify not using the word ‘dick’, when the word is part of the title of a play produced by the Washington Shakespeare Co., and that the Washington Post’s story in which the word is omitted is a review about the play?
Tribune Co. announced Thursday it had completed its move to go private, by merging with an acquisition unit of the Tribune Employee Stock Ownership. Chairman and chief exec Dennis FitzSimons announced he is steping down from his position.
Follow the Media’s Philip Stone takes a look at ACAP, the recently launched Automatic Content Access Protocol designed to help publishers control the way search engines crawl their content. Unfortunately, while many publishers support ACAP, major search engines have yet to adopt it.
Traffic continued to grow at telegraph.co.uk through November, up by 1.7m users, to 12.8m, in third place behind Guardian Unlimited and the Daily Mail online.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 20, 2007 at 4:58 PM
The news site metro.co.uk launched its new video-sharing siteMeView. The Dailymotion-like site proposes an engaging concept from the start: users can earn money from the clips they upload.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 20, 2007 at 4:54 PM
MTV owner Viacom signed a $500m (£250m) contract with Microsoft to use its Atlas advertising and content system for the next five years, effectively replacing DoubleClick.
The top triumvirate of Le Monde group jointly resigned last night, after the Society of Journalists of Le Monde (SRM) vetoed the 2007 financial round-up and provisional budget for 2008 for Le Monde’s digital branch, Le Monde Interactif.
On numerous occasions there has been debate as to whether some bloggers could be considered journalists. As many now realize though, the publishing platform, blogs, doesn’t define whether the content is journalism – but can blogs be conducive to online journalism?
In light of the change to the Federal Communications Commission’s rule to media cross-ownership, a paragraph in the Washington Post’s story could be interpreted to imply that media convergence isn’t as attractive to newspaper companies as it once was, say, before the rise of online video. But is media convergence really the past?
Posted byCyril Gros on December 20, 2007 at 3:30 PM
Since people spend a lot of time in public transports, the Press-Gratuite blog argues that the free newspapers turned this “waste of time” into a beneficial market.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 20, 2007 at 3:21 PM
A recently published study about bias in the media, conducted by a Purdue University political sociologist, tends to show American people' lack of trust in the media may lead to less concern about politics.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 20, 2007 at 2:35 PM
Online newspapers can’t ignore the power of search engines as they increasingly rely on the Internet for revenue and audience. But buying keywords to stay on top raises ethical issues when it comes to tragic events, should online newspapers simply behave like moneymakers?
Posted byCyril Gros on December 19, 2007 at 5:46 PM
Nine bloggers from all political sides have gathered to create a group blog, “The Ruckus” on Newsweek.com, which should help the traditional news outlet to cover the US presidential campaign from a new media perspective
Posted byCyril Gros on December 19, 2007 at 5:08 PM
FT.com yesterday published its 10 most-read articles in 2007 on its website. The most popular article deals neither with Madeleine McCann nor the appearance of missing canoeist, instead it's an article about the “striking similarities” between America’s current situation and the factors that brought down the Roman empire.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 19, 2007 at 3:43 PM
A new kind of freesheet now circulates in central London. The Notes from the Underground doesn’t deliver any news but only short stories, poems and cartoons.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 19, 2007 at 12:49 PM
As weblogs celebrate their 10th anniversary, the threatened blog network blognation.com seems to be nearing its end. When opening the front page, the statement “Will the last one out please turn off the light” appears besides a light switch…
Posted byCyril Gros on December 19, 2007 at 11:02 AM
Since the website of Zero Hora, brazilian newspaper, was launched in Sep. 2007, its newsroom has been thoroughly integrated, allowing efficient cooperation between the online and print staffs. But the newsroom was officially inaugurated last Friday.
Despite concerns being voiced over the effects of media concentration, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Tuesday to change its rules and allow broadcasters in the US’ top 20 markets to also own a newspaper.
According to Philip Stone’s Follow the Media, a couple of Swiss high school students are waging a war against freesheets by collating their own posters on distribution bins. “Instead of a poster promoting the free newspaper’s story and picture of Pamela Anderson the replacement poster read, “0 francs, zero information,” wrote Stone.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 18, 2007 at 5:06 PM
The press agency, Reuters, intends to increase its number of branded partnerships, following the one it recently struck with the International Herald Tribune.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 18, 2007 at 3:26 PM
Spain’s top media company Prisa, announced on Monday it had taken legal action against US-based media firm Nielsen. Prisa charges Nielsen for what it called an “unjustified” downgrade of the group’s audience figures for the website of its newspaper, El Pais.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 18, 2007 at 2:23 PM
The Sports Rights Owners Coalition and the recently created New Media Coalition are disputing their respective interests in the broadcast and the sales of video and photo content taken on sport events.
In the wake of a recent Weblog piece about the need for ombudsmen and public editors, the Chicago Tribune writes a tribute to Douglas Kneeland, its first public editor, who passed away on Dec. 15 of lung cancer.
In a show of ‘edginess’, The New York Times’ “T” fashion magazine published on Dec. 2 a photo-spread of a 17-year-old model adopting highly suggestive sexual poses, which led to some complaints. Was the choice to publish this picture worthy of the Times’ brand name?
Posted byCyril Gros on December 18, 2007 at 11:00 AM
The year 2007 registered the highest level of journalist deaths worldwide since 1994, up to 64, according to a report from the Committee to Protect Journalists, which has been tracking journalist deaths since 1981.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 17, 2007 at 5:44 PM
Natalia Morar, an investigative reporter in Moscow for the monthly independent newsmagazine New Time was barred from entry to Moscow on her return from an unrelated press trip to Israel. She was sent to her native country, Moldova without further explanations.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is debating this week on a rule that would allow newspapers and TV stations to buy each other. This could benefit the press as a business, but also potentially lead to a poorer media landscape for the public.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 17, 2007 at 5:13 PM
The media group India Today, which recently created its digital division India Today Group Digital, is planning on the launch of a web portal to span across media, as well as mobile magazines in early 2008.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 17, 2007 at 3:19 PM
The British press now counts numerous business journalists among top positions. Business has grown both as a newspaper section and cultural phenomenon for the last 25 years.
The Web has entirely changed the journalist-reader relationship. Two-way reader interaction is gaining ground through email, comments, SMS, online chats and blog posts, 24/7. This would imply that news outlets increasingly need ombudsmen. Yet there are reportedly fewer than 40 ombudsmen in the US, and few papers are willing to hire one, at a time of general cost-cutting. Maybe they should think about the potential costs of not having an ombudsman, and figure that the readers’ editor is not (only) a guardrail against angry readers. He or she is a bridge into Web 2.0 journalism.
In The Guardian’s review for new media, Jeff Jarvis calls 2007 “the year of Facebook,” as social networking and Facebook were discovered en masse by a wider international community. He also discusses the end of the paywall and the rise of Google.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 17, 2007 at 12:01 PM
A wave of outsourcing will begin in 2008 in the newspaper industry according to a survey of 15 private company executives done by Deutsche Bank analyst Paul Ginocchio.
In its 2007 review for the press, the Guardian lashes out at the UK press’ agenda, but nuances that these stories “are merely reflecting the tastes and wishes of their customers.”
In his Regret The Error blog, Canadian freelancer Craig Silverman comes back on some of the media’s most noticed mistakes during 2007: among the top were mistakes about US politician Barack Obama, but also a Titanic picture rip-off that went around the world before being caught.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 14, 2007 at 11:27 AM
Fairfax Media has just unveiled the design of its new $110-million headquarters, which will house The Age, 3AW radio, Fairfax Digital and the Melbourne bureaus of the Australian Financial Review and Business Review Weekly.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 14, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Many newspapers have given up on attracting young readers who have moved on to other platforms, instead of moving the newspaper with the young to those new platforms.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 13, 2007 at 4:22 PM
Starting next Wednesday, a new fundsraising association, “Press and Pluralism," will be created in France to help the press develop. Through this association, individual investors as well as firms will be able to make donations to press companies.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 3:29 PM
“Evergreen” describes the stories reporters have to do to fill the paper during holidays, when most everyone else is off and the news is slow. Doing evergreen stories usually causes journalists to groan.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 13, 2007 at 2:34 PM
The first free English-language tabloid daily will be launched in Thailand at the beginning of the next year by an already established Thai newspaper, The Nation.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 1:42 PM
Credit Suisse analyst John Klim has recently produced a report on the newspaper industry that explains things are not as bad as they seem to be. He made the point that the industry downturn is more cyclical than secular, having more to do with economic factors, like real estate softness, than anything inherent to the industry.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 1:19 PM
The Reuters news agency, after just having made a deal with the International Herald Tribune to produce a co-branded online/print business news section for the newspaper, has now partnered with FT.com to supply the financial news website with videos.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 1:12 PM
Business Week has decided to integrate, just a few months after their announcement of a redesign, putting one editor in charge of print and online for each of eight major content areas.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 1:00 PM
The Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter has announced the launch of the world's first "newspaper" telephone. The company has created a mobile phone offering the newspaper's subscribers direct and free access to its website.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Newspaper political blogs are becoming more and more popular these days, causing bloggers to have to answer to critics and allegations of bias on a daily basis.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 11:58 AM
User comments are becoming more and more popular on online news sites. Even the NY Times is now allowing moderated comments on selected articles. However, do these comments have a place in controversial breaking news stories?
Posted byCyril Gros on December 13, 2007 at 11:25 AM
Search engines are the primary way Internet users navigate to sites within key categories. The latest survey from Hitwise clearly shows Google is in the top of the search engines chart.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 10:54 AM
U.S. newspapers are now offering some remarkable online graphic tools to help their readers get an overview of the campaign for the 2008 presidential elections.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 12, 2007 at 4:45 PM
“The role of the journalist is key in bringing trusted information to readers… Print media is going to be the most trusted media in the future,” said information society commissioner Viviane Reding at the recent annual Publishers' Forum in Brussels, where publishers exchanged views with the European Commission.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 12, 2007 at 4:27 PM
The New York Times has decided to publish Web first for a main piece that will not appear in print until Sunday. This comes at a time when many papers are deciding whether to publish Web editions first for Sunday papers or to stick with the tradition of print first on Sundays.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 12, 2007 at 3:53 PM
Glue, an advertising agency, has been selected to work with News Group Newspapers. The company will work on the digital marketing aspects for the group’s tabloid newspapers, The Sun and News of the World, including online advertising, viral campaigns and other web projects.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 12, 2007 at 3:25 PM
In a follow-up interview with the Weblog, founder of the non-profit, mostly online news site MinnPost, Joel Kramer said that although it is still early, it seems to be a sustainable form of news.
“Press freedom is the leftist support,” ironically said French President Nicolas Sarkozy in an interview with Nouvel Observateur, in which he defended himself from having any control over the media.
Digital revenues at regional newspaper group Johnston Press grew 35.3% in the five months to Nov. 30, while print ad revenues declines 0.8% in the same period. The good news is that overall advertising were up 0.2%.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 12, 2007 at 12:41 PM
The Los Angeles Times has recently decided to reestablish hyperlocal reporter “bureaus” in order to improve its local coverage and be closer to its readers' concerns
Posted byCyril Gros on December 12, 2007 at 11:49 AM
The famous media marketplace, Mochila, today announced its wish to improve its syndication space content. The development of the site is based on three main pillars: an agreement with Autonomy Corporation, a partnership with GoDaddy.com and the launch of Mochila Version 4.0.
Tim Bowdler, one of UK’s most respected press chief executives, CEO of Johnston Press, agreed to release an exclusive statement for the Weblog about his outlook on the future of the industry. In the following, he both acknowledges the realities of decreasing sales and debunks excessively gloomy forecasts.
Roger Alton, former editor of Guardian’s sister Sunday paper The Observer, argued in an article than the good Sunday paper can survive without needing an online edition.
The French start-up Goojet has raised over €2.3 million in its first round of funding. Goojet is a firm specialized in developing mobile widgets based on Java MIDP2 technology.
German journalist and competitive yachtsman, Joerdis Guzman is filing daily multimedia reports for a Berlin newspaper from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Using nothing more than a laptop, a point and shoot camera and a balky Iridium satellite phone, Guzman files daily multimedia reports from the scene of the world’s largest transocean race.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 11, 2007 at 5:56 PM
Recently more and more print journalists are attracted to online journalism. However, the companies who decide to launch online sites face financial problems. Some chose to use an online paid-for model which usually has only a small group of subscribers from which they make a profit. Others offer the readers a free of charge content financed by advertisers.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 11, 2007 at 3:09 PM
Dun Laoghaire, a suburb south of Dublin, Ireland, which had no local newspaper for a hundred years, now, has two, created within a few weeks of one another. The 55,000 inhabitants of the town can now read the Dun LaoghaireExpress or the Dun Laoghaire Gazette.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 11, 2007 at 12:39 PM
Recently, Hans Kullin of Media Culpa wrote about how aftonbladet.se noticed a 12% increase in incoming links after the news site started showing blog links to articles. Now Roland Karlsson, of the Swedish blog networks blogg.se and webblogg.se told Kullin that the incoming traffic from aftonbladet.se to the blog network quadrupled since the introduction of blog links.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 11, 2007 at 12:25 PM
The Press Association has announced that it will collaborate with the University of Arts in London to produce a review of the state of multimedia news.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 11, 2007 at 12:13 PM
A new study from the US Newspaper National Network shows that people who read newspaper Web sites and also read the print edition are more likely to form opinions about new products, technologies and issues than those who use the Web without consulting print newspapers.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 11, 2007 at 11:47 AM
According to a poll conducted for the BBC World Service, 56% of the 11,344 people interviewed in 14 countries thought that freedom of the press was very important to ensure a free society. But 40% said it was more important to maintain social harmony and peace, even if it meant curbing the press's freedom to report news truthfully.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 11, 2007 at 11:12 AM
Nine and a half tons of free newspapers are being cleaned out of the London Underground each day on just three of its 12 routes by the London transit authorities.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 11, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Etienne Mougeotte, editor-in-chief of French newspaper Le Figaro wants to change the layout of the newspaper in order to make it “closer” to its readers.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 11, 2007 at 10:43 AM
Will Shuck of Capitol Weekly says he has had enough of the standard anecdotal leads to newspaper stories today. He says they are usually just a boring waste of time and have nothing to do with the real story being reported.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 10, 2007 at 4:47 PM
David Dunkley Gyimah, an integrated multimedia video journalist, senior university lecturer and council member of the UK's broadcast-academic standards for universities and broadcasters, the Broadcast Journalism Training Council, talks about why journalism training is more important than ever today.
The Sun is linking its print version to mobile phones, in an attempt to make the paper more interactive and enable better measurements of returns for advertisers. Using Quick Response (QR) bar codes in the paper, readers can access online content through their mobiles.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 10, 2007 at 1:05 PM
2008 will bring even more changes to the newspaper industry, according to Phil Rosenthal of chicagotribune.com. Revenue declines and the costs of investing in traditional media and competing on the Web will probably mean more job and resource cuts at news outlets in 2008.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 10, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Reporters Without Borders has expressed their concern that the number of websites to which access is blocked in Syria has been growing steadily for the past month.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 10, 2007 at 12:16 PM
France 24, an international news network based in France, backed by France’s leading commercial broadcasters, has made a worldwide deal with Nokia to offer an on-demand mobile service. The service will be available in French, English or Arabic.
There’s no question that video is one of this year’s biggest priorities for newspapers, whether national or local. In this Q&A, the Editors Weblog interviewed Alexander Houben, editor of volksfreund.tv, an online local TV channel launched by the German local paper Volksfreund. Houben describes video’s costs, its effects on journalists and how the editorial content fits the paper's strategy.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 10, 2007 at 12:03 PM
User-generated content is described by SFWeekly.com’s Matt Smith as “getting people to write for free.” UGC blogs, which are usually not edited, could cause more problems for newspapers than they are worth.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 10, 2007 at 11:17 AM
Michel Hajji Georgiou, a senior political analyst at the French-language daily L'Orient-Le Jour in Lebanon, has been awarded the 2007 Gebran Tueni Award.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 10, 2007 at 10:58 AM
News Corp. has confirmed that Robert Thomson will take over as publisher of Dow Jones & Co. and The Wall Street Journal as soon as News Corp.'s purchase of Dow Jones is complete.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 10, 2007 at 10:34 AM
Yahoo! India has launched a new Hindi news and current affairs site with Jagran Group, whose Dainik Jagran news site accounts for 80% of India's online audience.
Here a few more quick tips to facilitate newsroom integration, gathered during our study tour in the UK, from the Guardian and the Manchester Evening News.
CNET Networks, a tech and lifestyle publisher, has launched what it calls the Open Content Platform. It is an automated feature through which publishers can select content from five different CNET channels to post on their sites via portable widgets.
Two free hyper local community magazines. Community Soup (Bearsden) and Community Soup (Milngavie) have been launched in the Bearsden and Milngavie districts of Glasgow, Scotland.
ESPNU, a college sports network, is asking students, professors and athletic departments at 20 universities to cover their respective schools’ games as part of an effort to use more user-generated content.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 7, 2007 at 12:52 PM
It is clear today that newspapers must adapt the technology that they use online, however, technology needs to be adapted in print as well to keep these editions alive.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 7, 2007 at 11:50 AM
Dave Morgan, executive vice president, Global Advertising Strategy, for AOL, LLC recognizes the changes that have been made in the digital media business, also recognizing what is driving the changes.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 7, 2007 at 11:07 AM
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has reported in it’s In Shaping the Future study on the effects of media convergence, that many journalists are not happy about the implementation of new media newsrooms.
Google Inc has announced the release of a new application for the iPhone that combines the Web leader's services such as e-mail, search and calendar into a single interface.
Economically, print publishing is very different today than it used to be. There is massive amounts of free content on the Web, content that hasn’t really changed that much in general, or in value. It’s the value of the distribution of that content that has changed.
In Malaysia, average daily net circulation for newspapers crossed 2.8 million copies for the year ended June 30. This represented an increase of 12% from 2.5 million recorded from July 1, 2005 to June 30 last year.
News International’s freesheet, Thelondonpaper plans to expand its new map-based online entertainment site to include listings of local services and is preparing a location-based mobile version as well.
The Waco Tribune-Herald, like most daily papers, had been experiencing extreme losses in circulation and ad revenue. Michael Vivio, an advertising executive, decided to turn things around.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 6, 2007 at 12:28 PM
Topix, an online news and community network, is reportedly in talks with online news publishers about expanding the use of its hyper-local editing platform to create quick-fire news pages.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 6, 2007 at 11:55 AM
Although accustomed to criticism of both its right and left blogospheres, the Washington Post even heard criticism from inside its own newsroom regarding a story about Barack Obama’s alleged Muslim ties.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 6, 2007 at 11:21 AM
In a meeting with Wall Street analysts and shareholders yesterday, Post Co. chairman Donald E. Graham rebranded The Washington Post Co. as an "education and media company." He talked about the rise of KaplanInc. within the company and the decline of its flagship newspaper.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 6, 2007 at 10:58 AM
KDFW-TV reporter Rebecca Aguilar was recently suspended because of an interview that many viewers thought was too aggressive and offensive. This has caused newsroom and TV reporters to look at how to handle stories that involve aggressive reporting that could potentially be offensive to viewers.
More news from the study tour in the UK: yesterday we visited The Times of London and the Financial Times with our group of 25 editors. Again, here are some snapshots and a few practical tips offered by both organizations.
‘A Glimpse of the Next Episode,’ Nokia’s latest study says that within five years a quarter of all entertainment will be created, edited and shared within peer groups rather than coming out of traditional media groups.
Orange France and VF Italy have both announced their plans to launch mobile podcast services. The Java and Symbian supported services offer an innovative user experience compared to basic Wap-enabled services.
Everyone has been saying it. At UBS Media week presentations Tuesday the basic view was that newspaper print advertising revenue will continue to fall, that newspaper internet revenue will continue to climb, that combined the total revenue will still continue to decrease.
India Today Group is planning a big digital move, creating a single Website that is to showcase all of its properties. The group is also shifting from a subscription-based model to free access.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 5, 2007 at 12:54 PM
On his blog, Terry Heaton says he believes that the Internet does change the fundamentals of media, as opposed to Jeremy Allaire, founder and CEO of Brightcove saying it does not in his predictions for 2008.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 5, 2007 at 11:22 AM
EuroNews channel, CCTV China and the European Commission, have signed a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ for the broadcast of Furturis, a EuroNews program about science, space activities and technology, on CCTV.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 5, 2007 at 11:03 AM
As announced on November 14th, the former editorial head of the French daily, Le Monde, Edwy Plenellaunched an experimental news website whose final version should be available at the beginning of 2008.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 5, 2007 at 10:53 AM
In Japan, half of the top-10 selling works of fiction from the first six months of the year were composed on the handsets of mobile phones. These mobile novels sold an average of 400,000 copies.
We’re currently on a study tour in the UK, visiting some of the most innovative newsrooms with a group of 25 editors, focusing on themes of integration and journalist training. Here’s a glimpse and just a few practical tips gathered this morning at the Daily Telegraph.
As print newspaper revenues continue to fall, Bill Richards of Crosscut, suggests that papers look to devices such as Amazon’s Kindle, which use E ink technology.
While discussing the problems of the magazine industry, Jon Friedman of MarketWatch said, “The biggest weakness of most magazines' Web sites (and those of newspapers, too) has been their insistence on hiring longtime colleagues or other mainstream-publishing folks to edit them.”
Posted byCyril Gros on December 4, 2007 at 2:11 PM
Richard Warren, a technical manager with Userite Website comments on journalism.co.uk’s accessibility 2.0 project which reviewed eight newspapers for their accessibility, especially to the disabled.
The Times Union in Albany, N.Y has announced an upgrade of its editorial front-end software using applications from Digital Technology International. Hearst is investing more than $2M for the new software, which will go into production next year.
Following the declared state of emergency and new ordinances to curb media rights in Pakistan, media-persons from both the print and electronic media, representing various media bodies, various press clubs and journalist unions, writers and civil society representatives from across Pakistan have met to deliberate upon the state of media, its freedom, media laws, safety of journalists, closer and sustenance of media enterprises. Here are some of the conclusions, objectives, and demands:
Posted byEvan Fell on December 4, 2007 at 12:28 PM
The World Health Organization (WHO) has suspended the New York Times from its media distribution list for two weeks after the newspaper broke an embargo on a story about measles deaths.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 4, 2007 at 12:07 PM
Will Lewis, the editor in chief of the Telegraph has talked with Guardian about criticism, the hundreds of staffers who have left, and the changes for the future.
Posted byCyril Gros on December 4, 2007 at 11:32 AM
News of the World has launched a dedicated mobile WAP site. The approach echoes that of News Group national title The Sun. The news of both titles can now be accessed through the mobile Internet site, a downloadable Java application or through a text alert service.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 4, 2007 at 11:09 AM
The Associated Press has announced it will change the way it files, edits and distributes stories, opening at least four regional editing hubs as part of a plan it calls AP2.0. “You have to adjust to the marketplace,” said Jim Kennedy,the A.P.’s vice president for strategic planning.
Posted byEvan Fell on December 4, 2007 at 10:39 AM
Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst at The Poynter Institute asks the question that is on a lot of minds: “Is the time close by when a newspaper company, or at least some newspapers, will discontinue print and go all-electronic?”
Posted byCyril Gros on December 3, 2007 at 5:21 PM
While delivering this year's Hugo Young memorial lecture, Bill Keller, the executive editor of The New York Times gave a stern warning that the supply of reliable news is severely declining, despite the increase of information on the Web.
Would you have named Russian president Vladimir Putin ‘Person of the Year’? Time magazine did, and it explains why.
The news site metro.co.uk launched its new 
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.editorsweblog.org%2Fmultimedia%2F2007%2F12%2Fuk_metro_launches_meview_ugc_v.php&bodytext=<img width="208" hspace="3" height="175" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/news/centre-image.jpg" />The news site <strong>metro.co.uk</strong> launched its new <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/news/2007/12/metro_launches_mobile_service_two_new_we.php" target="_blank">video-sharing site</a> <strong>MeView</strong>. The <strong>Dailymotion</strong>-like site proposes an engaging concept from the start: users can earn money from the clips they upload.<br /><br />&title=UK: Metro launches MeView, UGC video platform){kind=link}
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.editorsweblog.org%2Fweb_20%2F2007%2F12%2Ffairfax_media_unveils_new_head.php&bodytext=<img width="200" hspace="2" height="142" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/news/syd-5htxmnqutqg151nbvfy5_layout%5B1%5D.jpg" />Fairfax Media has just unveiled the design of its new $110-million headquarters, which will house <em>The Age</em>, <strong>3AW radio</strong>, <strong>Fairfax Digital</strong> and the Melbourne bureaus of the Australian<em> Financial Review</em> and <em>Business Review Weekly</em>.&title=Fairfax Media unveils new headquarters){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.editorsweblog.org%2Fmultimedia%2F2007%2F12%2Fvideo_extreme_mobile_journalis.php&bodytext=<p><a target="_blank" href="http://vizeds.blip.tv/file/533568/"><img width="300" height="178" border="0" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/robb/300extreme.jpg" alt="Video: Extreme mobile reporting" /><br />A Google Earth video tour</a> of the extreme mobile journalism reporting being produced from the middle of the ARC 2007 race. (<a title="Video tour" target="_blank" href="http://blip.tv/file/533568">Play video</a>)</p><p> </p><p>By <a href="'http://www.robbmontgomery.com">Robb Montgomery</a> </p><p>German journalist and competitive yachtsman, Joerdis Guzman is filing daily multimedia reports for a Berlin newspaper from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Using nothing more than a laptop, a point and shoot camera and a balky Iridium satellite phone, Guzman files daily multimedia reports from the scene of the world’s largest transocean race.</p>&title=Video: Extreme mobile journalism){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.editorsweblog.org%2F&bodytext=<img width="200" hspace="2" height="134" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/print_newspapers/Times-door.jpg" />More news from the <a href="http://www.wan-press.org/wef/studytours.php" target="_blank">study tour in the UK</a>: yesterday we visited <em>The Times</em> of London and the <em>Financial Times</em> with our group of 25 editors. Again, here are some snapshots and a few practical tips offered by both organizations.&title=UK Tour: ideas from The Times and the Financial Times){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.editorsweblog.org%2F&bodytext=<img width="200" hspace="2" height="134" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/print_newspapers/DT-basic.jpg" />We’re currently on a <a href="http://www.wan-press.org/wef/studytours.php" target="_blank">study tour in the UK</a>, visiting some of the most innovative newsrooms with a group of 25 editors, focusing on themes of integration and journalist training. Here’s a glimpse and just a few practical tips gathered this morning at the <em>Daily Telegraph</em>.&title=UK Tour: tips from the Telegraph){kind=link}